“I’m really really happy that we’re able to do this every year since we started to be called the Gender Fair City in the whole of the Philippines and this happened two years ago with the passage of the Gender Fair Ordinance which allowed us to fight for our advocacy that is to promote awareness about LGBT issues, to promote diversity and equality, to combat discrimination, stereotyping and stigmatization and to promote our city as City of Tolerance.

“Since we passed this ordinance, 25 other cities have passed Gender Fair ordinances as well but I found out that Quezon City is still the only one that actually is implementing our ordinance.

“This film festival is in fact one of the provisions of our ordinance, that every year we do have to have a film festival such as this to remind our brothers and sisters in the LGBTQI community that you are just the same as every one else na pantay-pantay ang lahat ng tao dito sa lungsod Quezon.